Mini Flash Essay Contest: What's the Best Prank You've Ever Pulled?
Whether it's the longest lasting, most memorable (even if only to you!), or funniest prank, we want to hear all about it in a contest that's open now through Friday. Give us your best!
For the past few months — ever since Lee Gutkind and Dinty W. Moore joined us to talk about what the heck a flash essay is, really — we’ve been obsessed with short personal essays. We started working on them ourselves, had some successful contests and published some really great great pieces on our flagship publication, Narratively.
Because we’ve been enjoying the whole process so much, we thought, Why not do these on a more regular basis? Which is what we’re planning on doing going forward. Starting with one brand-new mini flash contest inspired by a favorite Narratively story that we recently revisited, “The Teenage Prank That’s Lasted 60 Years” from Clay Jennings Desmond. What we want to know is: What’s the best prank you’ve ever pulled? “Best” could mean the funniest, the one with the longest impact, the silliest, most clever, the one you can’t believe people actually fell for, the weirdest, most memorable… You get the idea!
Please share your experien…